GENUS SCHIZANTHUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Schizanthus mean? 

• GENUS SCHIZANTHUS (noun)
  The noun GENUS SCHIZANTHUS has 1 sense:

1. Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers

  Familiarity information: GENUS SCHIZANTHUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS SCHIZANTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chilean herbs with orchid-like flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Schizanthus" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Schizanthus"):

butterfly flower; poor man's orchid; schizanthus (any plant of the genus Schizanthus having finely divided leaves and showy variegated flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Schizanthus" is a member of...):

family Solanaceae; potato family; Solanaceae (large and economically important family of herbs or shrubs or trees often strongly scented and sometimes narcotic or poisonous; includes the genera Solanum, Atropa, Brugmansia, Capsicum, Datura, Hyoscyamus, Lycopersicon, Nicotiana, Petunia, Physalis, and Solandra)